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What we need is improvement of SOPs, not a conflict we are thoroughly unprepared to handle.

The way this incident was being discussed here, I thought it had happened yesterday (I'm extremely relieved to find out it didn't). We have hard evidence of MARCOs culture and capabilities having improved over the years - speparate special operations command in the navy, new gear (and the...

No, that was very different situation. Japan surrendered to the Allies, their generals got tried for war crimes, and they became an American vassal. The US still controls Guam. They still have naval bases in Okinawa and the Ryukyu Islands. They (Japs) also lost all their colonies (Burma...

Yeah a full withdrawal on our part is a military victory, right? The entire senior leadership of LTTE was still alive. They still had thousands of cadres. Also, the whole point of the IPKF was to protect the Tamils from Sinhala aggression, not fight them. Vietnam was a military defeat for the...

Wait what? Prabhakaran was the best thing that happened to India wrt SL. If we had supported his Tamil Eelam thing, we'd have military bases all over eastern SL. We squandered it and China took advantage.

Huh. I thought they were issued to infantry bns deployed along LoC and LAC..

Kisko?

Keyword in your post is 'should'. Knowing IA, it's definitely possible that they haven't fully adapted to the weapon system. They're handling it the same way they would handle an AK.

Last round blot hold open is there, it's likely that these guys have not figured out how to use the bolt release button, which loads a round into the chamber.

1st battle of Tarain is a prime one. This isn't exactly diplomacy. But after Mahmud of Ghazni's forces were routed, the Rajputs packed up and went home, not bothering to pursue Mahmud himself. A year later, Mahmud came back and India fell into Muslim rule for the next 7 centuries. But there are...

He's not talking about the tactics, but the poor diplomacy of the Rajputs. They let their enemies live and eventually got destroyed by the same enemies. All in the name of honour

Operation cactus was a Battalion level airborne operation. And I did say recent memory. I'm not talking about the ME. I'm talking about supporting insurgencies within Pakistan. For eg in Khyber pakhtunkhwa or Balochistan. Or even in Punjab proper.

Very aptly put. Paras have never conducted an operation far enough behind enemy lines that they would be beyond the reach of friendly infantry or arty, at least not in recent memory. This capability probably does not exist in Para SF. That's a shame too, because we possess something that NATO...

If you look at the video again, youll see that the first terrorist had his back facing the door. And the rushing across open ground is also indicative of larpers.

Like @rkhanna said, it's probably larpers. Agree with this post completely.

It could be that the guys playing the terrorists don't know where the Deltas are coming from. In which case this exercise is 100% accurate. It's also realistic that terrorists in real life would have a slower reaction time than trained soldiers.

There's also the noise. Who knows how it will react to sound of gunshots?

Nah they were just using auto firing. But yes, that did the job and they were pretty fast. (I'm not picking a bone here just saying. Gaali nahi dena)

They've trained so far to operate as a bn (para (air) I mean). Ab 2 coys ke saath kya ukhaad lenge?

I can relate lmao.